I am presenting terms and conditions modal to the user before registration but I am having an issue submitting the form. I think it might be because the submit button is outside of the form?
HTML
<form method="POST" id="registerUser" autocomplete="signupForm-noFill" action={{url("/register")}}>
...
<button type="submit" id="registerButton" role="button" class="btn btn-hp-modal btn-signup">Sign up</button>
</form>
Modal (outside the form above)
....
<button type="submit" id="acceptTerms" class="btn btn-hp-modal underline btn-signup-modal">I Accept</button>
JavaScript
$('#registerButton').click(function() {
$("#legalModal").modal("show");
return false;
});
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#acceptTerms").click(function () {
$("#registerUser").submit();
});
});
What happens when I try to submit the form is refreshing the page and adding a ? to the end of the url: /signup?. If I try submitting it without the modal then it works fine.
Your button is type submit, so it will send data of the form, as the parent form tag tells him, and won't considere your click function since it change the page.
You need to prevent the natural behaviour of a submit button.
The way to do this is preventDefault:
$("#acceptTerms").click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault(); //prevent from natural behaviour
$("#registerUser").submit();
});
Related
In the below code, I am trying to console.log the form input value when a button gets clicked. However, upon the button click, the value is only getting logged momentarily before disappearing.
why is this happening and how to resolve it?
document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click",function(){
const listItem = document.querySelector("input").value;
console.log(listItem);
});
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="text">
<button class ="btn btn-lg btn-primary" type="submit"> ADD </button>
</form>
</body>
When submitting a form, the browser sends a request to the server and refreshes the page. To disable this behavior, you can use event.preventDefault() when clicking the button
document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click",function(event){
event.preventDefault();
const listItem = document.querySelector("input").value;
console.log(listItem);
});
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="text">
<button class ="btn btn-lg btn-primary" type="submit"> ADD </button>
</form>
</body>
Others have explained that submitting a form reloads the page. But that doesn't really address the question about the console log.
Go to the Developer Tools settings, and in the Console section check Preserve log upon navigation. Then you won't lose log messages when the page reloads because of the form submission.
This is because browser reloads on the form submission. And your data is lost.
To prevent this simply use "event.preventDefault()" function after your log statement after passing "event" as a parameter in the event listener function.
Like this:
document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", function (event) {
const listItem = document.querySelector("input").value;
console.log(listItem);
event.preventDefault();
});
I have a web-form written in ASp.Net MVC5 which is used to gather some details from the user. However, before I get them to submit the form, I want them to have the option to look at another web-page (in a new window or tab) which gives them more information if they need it prior to submitting the page. To that end, on the web-form, I have a form with the following buttons:
<form action="/Application/MyAction" method="post" id="myForm">
// various fields ...
<button onclick="getMoreInfo()">More Information</button>
<button type="button">Submit Form</button>
</form>
Then, at the bottom of the page I have the following javascript defined:
<script>
function getMoreInfo()
{
var urlToUse = 'http://some-other-page.html';
window.open(urlToUse);
return false; // trying to stop the form submission from occurring
}
</script>
My problem is that when this "More Information" button is clicked, it has the effect of submitting the form [which I don't want to do yet] - since there is a separate submit button for doing that task. Is there a way to use a button to jump to another page without actually submitting the current form?
thanks heaps,
David.
I found that answer #3 at this question helped me:
How do I cancel form submission in submit button onclick event?
My solution was to change the code thus:
I changed the button code to look like this:
<form action="/Application/MyAction" method="post" id="myForm">
// various fields ...
<button id="moreInformationButton" >More Information</button>
<button type="button">Submit Form</button>
</form>
And then I changed the javascript to look like this:
$("#moreInformationButton").click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault(); // This stops the submit form being triggered
var urlToUse = 'http://some-other-page.html';
window.open(urlToUse); // open the help page
});
This allowed me to open up another window or tab with more information without actually submitting the form.
I have beginner question about submit behavior. Every time I press submit my loginModal keep coming back up, is this expected behavior? Its like the ready() function is fired again. I would like my initiate App() function to be executed after submit
Here is bits of my code:
//Show loginModal on page ready
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#loginModal').modal('show');
});
//loginModal submit
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-default pull-left" data-dismiss="modal"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove"></span> Cancel</button>`enter code here`
</div>
//When submit button is clicked
$('#loginModal').submit(function() {}
initiateApp()
});
You need to prevent the default behviour of the submit button i.e. to refresh the page. Use event.preventDefault()
$('#loginModal').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
initiateApp()
}
);
Since you chose to use an input type of Submit, once you click the button it will trigger an auto post-back to my knowledge and refresh the page. Try using:
<button>
OR
<input type='button'>
This will stop the page from refreshing. Give it a shot!
I have an web page that has a submit button. My submit button looks like the following:
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary wait-on-click">
<span>Submit</span>
</button>
When a user clicks the submit button, I want to disable the button and let the user know that something is happening. To do that, I have the following JavaScript:
$('.wait-on-click').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(this).prop('disabled', true);
$('span', this).text('Please wait...');
});
The button disables. The text is updated. However, the submit does not actually get submitted to the server. If I comment out the body of my JavaScript function, it works fine. I do not understand how to fix this.
Thank you!
I believe your problem is with this line
e.preventDefault();
This is preventing the default behavior of the submit button, i.e., submitting! Therefore, remove it.
Update
After testing, I have found the problem.
I believe your problem is with this line
$(this).prop('disabled', true);
For some reason, this is preventing the form from submitting. Therefore, put it in the submit handler.
$('.wait-on-click').click(function(e) {
$('span', this).text('Please wait...');
});
$('form').on('submit', function() {
$('.wait-on-click').prop('disabled', true);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form>
<input name="n" />
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary wait-on-click">
<span>Submit</span>
</button>
</form>
Suppose a form has multiple submit buttons:
...
<button type="submit" value="deletefoo">Delete Foo</button>
<button type="submit" value="deletebar">Delete Bar</button>
<button type="submit" value="Edit">Edit</button>
...
I am intercepting the clicks for only the 2 delete buttons and disabling the form submit to trigger a custom modal dialog which has OK and CANCEL buttons on it to confirm user choice. If user presses OK, I want to submit the form. If cancel, then dialog dismissed and nothing happens.
I have the first part wired up to trigger the dialog but I am at a loss on how to get the OK button in the dialog to trigger the form submit contingent on which original submit button was pressed (e.g. if Delete button pressed, I want to confirm with user they want to delete, then if so, submit the form as normal.
I've searched around and look at jQuery docs but haven't found the answer yet so I must be missing something really straightforward.
Update: I don't want to use JS confirm function. In my original question above I'm looking to use a custom modal dialog for various reasons.
Check out the JS confirm function and put it as an onclick event.
You have a nice example here.
Why not have them be regular buttons and then onclick set a variable to determine the action type and then when the form submits include this hidden variable and check that to find what you're supposed to do
First, you'd have to intercept both (all) the buttons, you could do this easily by fetching any of the submit buttons within a specific form, then you can ask your question and given you still have the current event handler, you can figure out what button was pressed and do the callback you'd like. For example:
<form id="myform">
<button type="submit" value="delete">Delete</button>
<button type="submit" value="Edit">Edit</button>
</form>
--
$(function() {
$("form#myform button[type='submit']").click(function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
if (confirm("you sure")) {
var action = $(ev.currentTarget).val();
console.log(action);
}
});
});
JSLint is here: http://jsfiddle.net/r48Cb/
Basically, console.log(action) will output either "delete" or "Edit" based on the original click. How you handle that value is up to you. A switch statement, a simple if block could work, but it's up to you, I don't know the scope of your app.
The window.confirm function returns a true if the user selects okay and a false if the user cancels. Using this logic you could do something like this:
<button id="delete" type="submit" value="delete">Delete</button>
<button type="submit" value="Edit">Edit</button>
var question;
$("#delete").click(function(){question=window.confirm("Are you sure?");)
if (question){
//Submit the form here
}
else{
alert("Not deleted!");
}
I think you are making it too complex, you can do something as simple as:
<form >
<input name="foo" value="foo">
<button name="sub0" value="sub0" onclick="
return window.confirm('sure?');
">submit 0</button>
<button name="sub1" value="sub1" onclick="
return window.confirm('sure?');
">submit 1</button>
</form>
If the user clicks OK on the confirm dialog, the form submits from whichever button was pressed. If not, it doesn't.
My 2c:
... (edited: removed the value parameter. buttons don't need that)
<button onclick='deleteFoo(); ' >Delete Foo</button>
<button onclick='deleteBar(); ' >Delete Bar</button>
<button onclick='allowEdit(); ' >Edit</button>
...
function deleteFoo() {
do-your-modal-whichever-way-you-want;
if confirmed,
$('#form-id').attr('action','your-action-for-delete-foo');
$('#form-id').submit();
else-just-return
}
function deleteBar() {
do-your-modal-whichever-way-you-want;
if confirmed,
$('#form-id').attr('action','your-action-for-delete-bar');
$('#form-id').submit();
else-just-return
}
function allowEdit() {
whatever
}